9 C.O.’s are serving as ‘guinea pigs’ in experiments at the University of Minnesota to determine international standards regarding the minimum amount of vitamins necessary to sustain healthy adult life. Results should be valuable in making possible better use of available supplies, especially during the postwar period. Two of the men [George Cain and Walter Carlson] serve as lab technicians as well. 1943.

CPS Unit No. 115, subunit 27, located at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, subjected CPS men to experiments studying the effects of bed rest/cold conditions.

Dr. Norman S. Moore and Dr. Maynard directed this OSRD project experimenting with the effect of protein level in the diet upon resistance to low temperatures during bed rest, looking in particular at the respiratory exchange and other body reactions to the cold. Four to eight men at a time were assigned during 1944 to 1946 in this project sponsored by Cornell University with oversight from the Brethren Service Committee.